About Electronics & Gadgets: eReader Roundup

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Electronics & Gadgets From Fred Zahradnik, your About Electronics & Gadgets Editor eBooks are outselling hardcovers, and the eReader market seems to have broken out into the mainstream. Check out the eReader roundup below. Also new this week: a $59 in-car Internet radio player, iPhone iOS4 tips and tricks, and a chance to write your own home theater system review. Best eReaders: A Roundup With Amazon reporting record Kindle sales and Barnes & Noble and Sony unable to keep up with demand for their new eReaders, it appears as if the eBook reader segment has finally arrived. Here's a list of the more popular devices currently on the market....Read more Review: Carmen Internet Radio Player Carmen provides an easy solution for downloading Internet streams into its 2 gigabyte memory by using a built-in software radio guide on your Mac or PC. Then, just detach from computer, plug into a 12-volt source in your car, and tune to an empty FM frequency. At $59.99, Carmen is a frugal person's solution to getting Internet Radio into their vehicle...Read more Submit Your Own Home Theater Review Have you purchased a home theater receiver, Blu-ray, DVD player, or HDTV recently? If so, now you can share your experience with the rest of us. Submit your own product review and have it posted for the whole world to read. Reviews are not limited just to new products. If you own an old or "classic" product that you would like to share, that's OK too...Read more Using Apple iPHone iOS4 Tips and tricks on how to use iOS 4, with its new features and changes to the established iPhone interface....Read more Electronics & Gadgets Ads Electronics Gadgets Roundup Weed Killer Roundup Sweepstakes Contest Featured Articles Free Music Downloads This Week Review: Telefunken M80 Dynamic Microphone Backing Up Camcorder Videos Today's Best Cell Phones Before You Buy a Mouse Kodak Pulse 7-inch Digital Photo Frame Review   More from About.com Plan a Unique Vegas Wedding The minister, music and champagne are just the beginning -- why not get married aboard a helicopter or have a pirate swing in to deliver your rings? Arrrr! More> Join About.com's User Panel! Share your opinions and help us make About.com more relevant, informative and enjoyable to use. More>   Sign up for more free newsletters on your favorite topics You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the About Electronics & Gadgets newsletter. If you wish to change your email address or unsubscribe, please click here. About respects your privacy: Our Privacy Policy Contact Information: 249 West 17th Street New York, NY, 10011 © 2010 About.com   Advertisement

About Electronics & Gadgets: Motorola Droid X Smartphone Review

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Electronics & Gadgets From Fred Zahradnik, your About Electronics & Gadgets Editor In this issue, we review the new Motorola Droid X smartphone, delve into digital camera resolution settings, explore how to improve Netflix streaming movies on the Wii, and much more. Motorola Droid X Smartphone Review Motorola and Verizon Wireless have taken the wraps off of the Droid's successor, the Droid X, a smartphone they are calling "a pocket-sized home theater." And while I still find the Droid X a bit sluggish, overall I like it - a lot...Read more Digital Photography: Select the Right Resolution When shooting photos with your digital camera, you can set the camera to shoot at a resolution designed to meet your needs. Determining how much camera resolution you'll ultimately need for a print depends on the size of the print you want to make. The table in this article will help you decide on the proper resolution...Read more 10 Ways Netflix Can Improve Streaming Movies on the Wii A few months ago, Netflix began to offer the ability to stream movies through the Wii (as well as the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3). It's a nice little system, but it could be so much better. Here are 10 things Netflix needs to do to make their Wii streaming video experience great...Read more eBook Formats Supported by the iPad One of the big selling features of the iPad is iBooks, the app and online store that turns the iPad into an ereader. But reading ebooks on the iPad doesn't mean you have to buy from Apple's iBooks Store. The iPad also supports other ebook file formats. These include...Read more Electronics & Gadgets Ads Cell Phone Review Flip Phone Camera Phone PDA Phone Samsung Motorola Cellphones Featured Articles Free Music Downloads This Week Sony Unveils Interchangeable Lens Camcorder Preview of the Slim New Garmin 3790T GPS Make Your Own Android App Free Pocket PC Software Pac-Man's Big Anniversary   More from About.com Plan a Unique Vegas Wedding The minister, music and champagne are just the beginning -- why not get married aboard a helicopter or have a pirate swing in to deliver your rings? Arrrr! More> Join About.com's User Panel! Share your opinions and help us make About.com more relevant, informative and enjoyable to use. More>   Sign up for more free newsletters on your favorite topics You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the About Electronics & Gadgets newsletter. If you wish to change your email address or unsubscribe, please click here. About respects your privacy: Our Privacy Policy Contact Information: 249 West 17th Street New York, NY, 10011 © 2010 About.com   Advertisement

About Electronics & Gadgets: Today's Best Text-Messaging Phones

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Electronics & Gadgets From Fred Zahradnik, your About Electronics & Gadgets Editor This week, smartphone guide Liane Cassavoy reviews the top-ten phones for texting. Home theater guide Robert Silva shows us the easy way to soup up our TV sound systems. There's lots more advice in this issue, including laptop cool-down tricks, iPhone baseball app reviews and more. Today's Best Text-Messaging Phones Cell phones are great for talking, sure. But they're also great for messaging - especially text messaging, when you want to fire off a quick note to someone without having to make a phone call. But not all phones handle messaging the same way. Here's a list of today's best text messaging phones...Read more The Sound Bar Option - Better Sound for Your TV Let's face it, a TV's built-in speaker system usually sounds anemic at best and downright unintelligible at worst. The solution for you may just be a Sound Bar...Read more 5 Tips to Cool Down a Hot Laptop Computer Whether or not you're experiencing the warning signs and dangers of your laptop overheating, the simple and inexpensive protective measures below will help keep your laptop cooler and make it work more reliably...Read more Best iPhone Baseball Apps Baseball season is underway, and there are a variety of iPhone apps that provide breaking baseball news or help you manage your fantasy team. We found a few iPhone baseball apps that are definitely worth a download...Read more Electronics & Gadgets Ads Cell Phone Plans Prepaid Phones Best Wireless Phones Cheap Verizon Phones LG Texting Phones Featured Articles Free Music Downloads This Week Canon Introduces a Hi-res Scanner Golf GPS for BlackBerry, Verizon Smartphones Wii: Prince of Persia - The Forgotten Sands Review This Week's PS2, PS3 New Releases Xbox 360 Slim System FAQ   More from About.com Plan a Unique Vegas Wedding The minister, music and champagne are just the beginning -- why not get married aboard a helicopter or have a pirate swing in to deliver your rings? Arrrr! More> Join About.com's User Panel! Share your opinions and help us make About.com more relevant, informative and enjoyable to use. More>   Sign up for more free newsletters on your favorite topics You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the About Electronics & Gadgets newsletter. If you wish to change your email address or unsubscribe, please click here. About respects your privacy: Our Privacy Policy Contact Information: 249 West 17th Street New York, NY, 10011 © 2010 About.com   Advertisement

About Electronics & Gadgets: Travel Tech, GPS Watches

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Electronics & Gadgets From Fred Zahradnik, your About Electronics & Gadgets Editor More on travel tech this week, as we describe how to take advantage of pay-as-you-go Internet connectivity. Our digital photography guide, Kyle Schurman, shares his top-ten travel photography tips. Also new is a roundup review of seven GPS watches for runners, walkers, and triathletes. Ten Travel Photography Tips When traveling with your digital camera, you can make use of it to help you through a variety of potential problems that may occur. It's also important to take some precautions to ensure your camera and related equipment will be safe as you travel. Travel photography requires some special steps...Read more Top GPS Sports and Fitness Watches A GPS watch can help you get the most out of your training and fitness time, and keep you on pace during a race. GPS watches are more accurate than devices that measure your strides, and don't require any supplemental wires or in-shoe sensors. You can use a GPS watch on a bike, during a run or hike, or for just about any outdoor activity...Read more Travel Everywhere With Pay-as-you-go Internet International mobile broadband rental services offer prepaid and pay-as-you-go Internet access for your laptop in countries around the world (over 150 countries globally)...Read more How to Check Your iPad, iPhone Data Plan Usage With the introduction of AT&T's new iPad and iPhone data plans, and the removal of the unlimited plan for new customers, it's more important than ever before to know how to check your iPad 3G and iPhone data plan usage each month....Read more Electronics & Gadgets Ads Spy Gadgets Fun Gadgets Best New Gadgets Buy Gadgets Gizmos Gadgets Featured Articles Free Music Downloads This Week HD Video: 1080i vs 1080p Top iPad Tricks and Tips Review: Samsung SCX-4263 Wireless Laser Printer Crackdown 2 Review (X360) Wii Continues to Trounce Competitors   More from About.com Plan a Unique Vegas Wedding The minister, music and champagne are just the beginning -- why not get married aboard a helicopter or have a pirate swing in to deliver your rings? Arrrr! More> Join About.com's User Panel! Share your opinions and help us make About.com more relevant, informative and enjoyable to use. More>   Sign up for more free newsletters on your favorite topics You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the About Electronics & Gadgets newsletter. If you wish to change your email address or unsubscribe, please click here. About respects your privacy: Our Privacy Policy Contact Information: 249 West 17th Street New York, NY, 10011 © 2010 About.com   Advertisement